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ferries A ferry is a ship, watercraft or amphibious vehicle used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A passenger ferry with many stops, such as in Venice, Italy, is sometimes called a water bus or water tax ...
cross or once crossed the
East River The East River is a saltwater tidal estuary in New York City. The waterway, which is actually not a river despite its name, connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates the borough of Quee ...
in
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Manhattan–Brooklyn–Queens–Manhattan


Manhattan–Brooklyn–Queens


Manhattan–Brooklyn

One of the first documented
team boat A team boat, horse boat, or horse ferry, is a watercraft powered by horses or mules, generally using a treadmill, which serves as a horse engine. Team boats were popular as ferries in the United States from the mid-1810s to the 1850s. Types Th ...
s in commercial service in the United States was "put in service in 1814 on a run between
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and
Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...
." It took "8 to 18 minutes to cross the
East River The East River is a saltwater tidal estuary in New York City. The waterway, which is actually not a river despite its name, connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates the borough of Quee ...
and carried an average of 200 passengers, plus horses and vehicles." Team boats served
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for "about ten years, from 1814-1824. They were of eight horse-power and crossed the rivers in from twelve to twenty minutes."


Manhattan–Queens


The Bronx–Queens


See also

* List of fixed crossings of the East River *
List of fixed crossings of the Hudson River This is a list of bridges and other crossings of the Hudson River, from its mouth at the Upper New York Bay upstream to its cartographic beginning at Henderson Lake in Newcomb, New York. Crossings The crossings are listed from south to north. ...
*
List of ferries across the Hudson River in New York City The following ferries once crossed the North River (Hudson River) between New York City and New Jersey. There was no ferry service between 1967 and 1989, when it was restarted by New York Waterway. Row and Sail Horse ferries Team boat ...


References


A Compilation of the Ferry Leases and Railroad Grants Made by the Corporation of the City of New York
1860
A Compilation of the Existing Ferry Leases and Railroad Grants Made by the Corporation of the City of New York
1866 *{{cite news , work =
Brooklyn Daily Eagle :''This article covers both the historical newspaper (1841–1955, 1960–1963), as well as an unrelated new Brooklyn Daily Eagle starting 1996 published currently'' The ''Brooklyn Eagle'' (originally joint name ''The Brooklyn Eagle'' and ''King ...
, location =
Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, beh ...
, title=Brooklyn Ferries, date = 18 July 1870, page=2 *Brian J. Cudahy, Over and Back: The History of Ferryboats in New York Harbor *Ferries
East River The East River is a saltwater tidal estuary in New York City. The waterway, which is actually not a river despite its name, connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates the borough of Quee ...
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